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It turns out that in the ancient world there were quite a few ways to execute condemned men and women (skinning being one of them). Here we look at 13 of the most macabre methods for dispatching people in antiquity.
The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.
Early 1900s - Beginning of the “Progressive Period” of reform in the United States. 1907-1917 - Nine states abolish the death penalty for all crimes or strictly limit it. 1920s - 1940s - American abolition movement loses support. 1924 - The use of cyanide gas introduced as an execution method.
- Brickin’ It - Immurement
- Nailed It – Crucifixion
- A Cut Above The Rest – Slow Slicing
- Slow Roast, Anyone? – Boiling and Burning Alive
- This Is A Stick Up! - Impalement
- Milking It - The Boats, The Dread of The Ancient World
- The Orléans Robber and The Three-Year Execution
From the Vestal Virgins of Ancient Rome to 19th-century Persia (where criminals were known to have been bricked up alive into city walls head downwards) the ‘walling in’ of the condemned has a long history. The Vestal Virgins, immured in an underground chamber when breaking their vows, were given a small amount of food and water to take into their ...
The Third Servile War (73-71 BC), known popularly as the Spartacus Rebellion, was a slave revolt against Rome famously led by Thracian gladiator Spartacus (111-71 BC). It has been estimated that after their defeat some 11,000 men of the slave army were crucified, over half of these by victorious general Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BC), who had ...
In Imperial China, serious crimes such as murder and treason saw some wretched people sentenced to Lingchi. Also known as ‘death by a thousand cuts’ or ‘slow slicing’, Lingchiinvolved the condemned having small pieces of flesh removed with a knife in a manner that would delay death. The number of slices could be just a handful or could number in th...
Many of the most unhurried and cruellest executions in history have involved the condemned being steadily cooked in some way (though not normally with consumption in mind!). In 1532, chef Richard Roose was boiled to death in Smithfield, London, for the crime of poisoning. He was chained to a gibbet and repeatedly dipped into a boiling cauldron, dyi...
In his 1798 book, Voyages to the East-Indies, Johan Splinter Stavorinus relates how impalement was a common method of capital punishment in the Dutch colony of Batavia (modern-day Jakarta, Indonesia). He describes witnessing a slave being impaled for murder there in 1769. An incision was made in the man’s spine, he says, and then an iron spike was ...
Everyone knows what it’s like to have too much to drink at a party and say something daft. Normally all it garners is a cross word or two in the taxi home. But for Persian soldier Mithridates, the consequence for his outburst at a boozy banquet in 401 BC – which put him in the bad books of King of Kings Artaxerxes II (453 or 445 – 358 BC) - was to ...
One day in 1747, in the French city of Orléans, a highwaymanwas ‘broken’ on the wheel. After bludgeoning the man to a bloody pulp, the executioner gave what he believed to be a mangled corpse to a local surgeon. Preparing to dissect the ‘body’ for a lecture, the physician and his students were shocked to see the man come round. The surgeon, after a...
On Monday, 21 January 1793, arguably one of the most significant public executions in history took place – King Louis XVI of France was beheaded by guillotine in the centre of Paris, ending with the drop of the blade over a thousand years of monarchy in France.
15. Mai 2024 · The chart highlights the gradual rise in use of capital punishment in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; a peak of executions in the early 20th century; moratorium; and then the resumption of executions after moratorium.
Beginning with the murder of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002, Islamic militant groups such as al-Qaeda embraced beheading as a propaganda tool, distributing gruesome videos of such executions to media outlets and on the Internet.
